Classical Poems by Arab Women

<p>Arab women poets have been around since the earliest of times, yet their <i>diwans</i> (collected poems) were not given the same consideration as their male counterparts.<br>Spanning 5,000 years, from the pre-Islamic to the Andalusian periods, <i>Classical Poems by Arab Women</i> presents rarely seen work by over fifty women writers for the first time. From the sorrowful eulogies of Khansa to the gleeful scorn of Wallada bint al-Mustakfi, this collection ex